#u

I look at my clarinet sometimes and I think, I wonder what's going to come out of there tonight? You never know. ↗

— Acker Bilk

#come #going #i #i think #i wonder

In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#come #deep #enough #good #only

Our parents have always encouraged us to be independent and dream big. ↗

— Jenna Bush

#big #dream #encouraged #independent #our

Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express. ↗

— James C. Maxwell

#flatter #human #human language #ideas #language

The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#background #foreground #landscape #mind

Gina was beautiful like a sunset. You see it and you think of how beautiful it is, and then it’s over and you move on. But Trista was beautiful like a song. The kind of song you play over and over and never get sick of hearing. The kind of song he wanted to write for her. But he knew he would never be able to string together the right combination of notes to show her how he really felt. ↗

— Chris Stocking

#beauty #fiction #his-only-star #music #sunset

I now proceed to demonstrate that the Mexicans are wholly incapable of self-government, and that our liberties, our fortunes and our lives are insecure so long as we are connected with them. ↗

— William H. Wharton

#demonstrate #fortunes #i #incapable #insecure

Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do. ↗

— Barbara Walters

#enchanting #few #few people #find #maybe

The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers. ↗

— Barbara Walters

#full #may #readers #world #writers

In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds. ↗

— David Blaine

#capacity #each #imposed #minds #only